The document summarizes Blackboard Learn migration plans at SUNY Oswego from their old ANGEL system to the new Blackboard Learn platform. It provides timelines showing the phased migration of cohorts through spring 2015 with full migration by fall 2015. It introduces the migration team and describes preparation work underway including configuring settings, training faculty, and setting up integrations. The first cohort of over 50 faculty and 120 courses is already live on Blackboard Learn for spring 2015.

1. Blackboard Learn Migration
January 15, 2015

2. Overview
● Why change and why Blackboard?
● Project timeline
● Migration team
● Getting Ready
● Cohort 1
● Sample Course
● Coming Soon

3. We now join our migration, already in progress…

4. Why Change? Why Blackboard?
• ANGEL acquired by Blackboard 2009
• New feature development focused exclusively in Bb
• ANGEL support discontinued by SUNY in 2017
• 30+ campuses to migrate to Bb by 2017
• Consistent student experience across institutions

5. Timeline
● Fall 2014 semester: Configuration completed/training for first
cohort
● Spring 2015 semester: First cohort live on Bb Learn, running ANGEL
in parallel
● Summer 2015: Second cohort live on Bb Learn, running ANGEL in
parallel
● Fall 2015 Semester: Everyone on Bb Learn, ANGEL decommissioned

6. Migration Team
● Oswego: Theresa Gilliard-Cook, Nicole
Decker, Kathi Dutton, Kristen Flint, Doug
Hemphill, Greg Ketcham, and Brandon West
● Open SUNY: Harry Cargile, Brett Becker,
and Justin Korneisl
● ITEC: Israel Washington

7. Getting Ready
● Weekly migration meeting began on August 5
● Initial installation completed on September 30
● Oswego team training October 14 & 15
● Ongoing global configuration
● Giving Learn an Oswego look and feel
● Setting up data feed from banner
● Installing and configuring Building Blocks
● Single sign-on authentication
● Designing faculty workshops
● Creating faculty and student support documents

8. More: Building Blocks
● Collaborate
● Ensemble
● iClicker
● Panopto
● Lyndia
● Ares
● Pearson
● Cengage
● McGraw Hill

9. Cohort 1
● Call for participation September 25
● Over 50 Faculty responded
● First faculty training - November 3 & 4
● 5 Faculty Open Sessions
● Course shells with migrated content available - November 21
● Currently 50 faculty; 120 courses
● 21 Departments

10. Who is in Cohort 1
● School of Business
○ 7 faculty; 16 courses
● School of Education
○ 10 faculty; 25 courses
● Communication, Media and Art
○ 5 faculty; 10 courses
● Liberal Arts and Sciences
○ 28 faculty; 69 courses
● 19 online; 33 hybrid; 68 web-enhanced

11. Sample Course

13. Coming Soon
● Campus Blackboard Learn Support website
● Winter Breakout Sessions (happening now!)
● Additional Faculty Open Sessions
● Redirects
● Cohort 2 call for participation - early February
● Cohort 2 faculty training - March 16 & 17
● Completed campus migration - August 24

14. What Else?
● Faculty Feedback to date has been positive
● Really like having inline grading ability
● Intuitive
● Full Student Orientation

15. Questions?
Support issues: bbhelp-list@oswego.edu